Sony Mobile removed the “Close all” button for recent apps when it first released Android Lollipop, to the annoyance of some. Well it appears that Sony developers are listening as the button has reappeared in select Lollipop builds for the Xperia Z2 series that started to roll earlier this week. This particular feature is not available across all regions, for those where it is live, you may also notice the re-introduction of the NFC icon in the status bar.

Does anyone else think the mod featured on XperiaBlog a week or two ago is ten times nicer looking. I appreciate the feature, it was something I’d miss, but even still, could Sony not have at least tried to make it look to have some material design…

Faisal Armand

That’s not the thing that matters.. Lollipop update seems to be anticlimactic.

Does someone know an app that can make video subtitles? I kinda want to make hitler video parody

MatthewPDX

Now I just need the update for C6016.

Clarence Alvarado

+1000 exactly. Can those people beg for the Close All also pass the news on the nodded one better than their implementation?

JonShipman

Why in the hell do you need a close all apps in the first place? Apps auto close on Android.

Even i didn’t need it. My Z1 compact doesn’t have it And I don’t want it. I can swipe it out.

DBS

The entire Lollipop update brings atrocious designs. This is just another one.

Carlos W. H. Sun

I think the old design team must have been fired.

JonShipman

Not services, but those stay open regardless if the app is in the recent apps screen.

Open 4-5 apps and then look at Settings -> Apps -> Running Apps. Odds are the oldest apps are already closed. All closing an app in the recent apps list does is remove the “sleep state” of that app. Think of it like Windows Hibernation, but instead of OS wide it’s on a per app basis.

Thariq Mohammed

Lollipop is available for Z2 in my country, but only via Wifi connection, not via carriers. Unfortunately I don’t have a wifi connection. Oh my God

serendipity1002

Meanwhile with cm12 we’ve got a neat close all button in the form of a tweaked “hamburger”

actually removing sleep-state apps will hinder OS performance because of garbage collection too often. I never swiped any app from the list. And, i believe this function is rather a placebo effect

Timel

omg!!!! Lol
Sony UI is the worst

Timel

If I was Sony
I’ll remove a search bar from recent app screen and hide the small app bar to the right edge, let user swipe it out from the right edge whenever they wanna use it. Bcause honestly Sony UI is really mess and isn’t beautiful at all.

raju

Mee too

Aditya Thakur

This feature will be useful…sometimes.

But the Close All button is hiding the google mic button….this is not the correct way to customise anything.

Hope sony will fix every dirty customization they had done to this beautiful os, because with lollipop release sony is showing the worst side…..they had hinted us by their new slogan…’Be Moved’

Aditya Thakur

NFC icon is the missing part in google’s android kitkat and lollipop….sony had showed them.

Though it is not very useful and not a plus point for us but we can say some little thing is different in sony.

Aditya Thakur

This feature will be useful…sometimes.

But the Close All button is hiding the google mic button..it has been misaligned…this is not the correct way to customise anything.

Hope sony will fix every dirty customization they had done to this beautiful os, because with lollipop release sony is showing the worst side…..they had hinted us by their new slogan…’Be Moved’

P.S – We had also seen the incorrect customization of navigation buttons or misaligned navigation buttons in lollipop i.e. they are not lined up properly…do they need the roller scale for that?

Here are comparisons and the properly aligned buttons.

Ritwij

Dude do you have overheating issues? Because I do. And battery drain too. SoT was 7-8 hrs in 4.4.4 and now its 5hrs

Dhama

Better to go with devices having Google android builds………..!!!!!

Faisal Armand

I experienced overheating too. But for the battery drain, i’m not sure. I haven’t managed to drain the battery to 0% yet, but I think more or less it’s the same as before. In 4.4.4 I experienced a strange problem, though. When my battery hit 14% it drained so fast up until 4% and then from 4-0%, the phone just won’t die.

Z2 user on esato forum reports better battery life

Dhama

I think they are done with Custom ROM’s :P

Dhama

Sony please come up with next nexus device !!!!!

pixlas

Sony dig not remove the close all button. Google did. There is none in Android 5.
I think they listened to us and made one!

echomrg

too bad to use CM12 i have to lose some of the features i paid for…

echomrg

yup, it’s really ugly.
it looks like something they forgot and slapped on at the last second.
oh, wait, that’s exactly what it is…

Emil Oskarsson

Haha according to you? Every smartphone except Samsung and their beloved touchwiz sucks according to you. Let me laugh at your face. Sony ui, sense ui LG ui and vanilla Android are the best UI you can get out there today. Don’t like the theme of Sonys new UI? Well then go ahead and install a Xperia theme that will change it for you :)

Emil Oskarsson

How is it a mess? It has just changed to the better?

Timel

Xiaomi is the best
Touchwiz is now better than the previous version but still ugly anyway
But now Sony UI is the worst, the ugliest UI

It would be far better if they made it like the mod published some days ago.
And if they removed the search bar on multitasking.
And if they hided the small apps bar to the edge, and let the user decide when to use it.

In other words, if they made it like Samsung.

roeshak

The first firmware they released wasn’t finished that’s all. Sony just so ridiculously late with lollipop. Does anyone know of x reality and super vivid mode work officially on any of these newer builds

Azar

Exactly!!! Seriously, Google? Why the hell would we want to search from recent apps. They’re just advertising themselves all over android! See how nicely implemented spotlight search is, in iOS.

Ritwij

No I’m not playing games. Just using WhatsApp or Snapchat and it gets heated. Not too much, but it never used to be like this.

Heating issue has been reduced ,not fully but somewhat OK (4 me). After around 45 min of gameplay of boom beach device tends to warmer earlier it was hot on kitkat 4.4.4.

Ritwij

Today my battery jumped from 6% to 4% directly. No 5%

And then I charged from 1%, it went directly to 3%

My phone is only 4 months old so I’m hoping my battery isn’t faulty (I don’t overcharge it and I don’t use the phone when it’s charging)… I take most of the necessary precautions when it comes to my battery and this is happening since I upgraded to Lollipop… So I’m guessing Lollipop is the reason. Even while typing all this, my phone has become warm, which is quite uncomfortable.

Chan Kin Cheung

then stay away from it

Chan Kin Cheung

agreeed

Ivan Cerovski

I got the 5.0.2 update for my Z3 last night and i do not have the close all button, it’s so annoying…

brick

Those modes work on lollipop they released here in Italy for z3 2 weeks ago. Be glad that it’s just minor bugs like these and not major ones like what happens all the time with Samsung. Coming from a galaxy s4 I have to say Sony does a better job with the updates. New features and almost no bugs is much better than getting an update earlier that is full with issues.

brick

Like Samsung? You mean no new features, full of bugs, battery drain and lag?

Lorenzo

I’m talking about only the multitasking.

Thariq Mohammed

No use

Roy

I miss mine on my Z2 so badly. I’m a neat freak.

Olger Shaqiraj

Battery life seems good for me
Maybe u should try to format your phone like I have do
Didn’t test for camera overheat but with app seems I don’t overheat on 4.4.4 I have use snapdragon guru app and I have use about 48 hours without charge
I am testing battery life and After 27 hours I am on 7% battery remain (not using snapdragon app)

The Flash

“OHHHMAAGAWDDDD Calm down.. Sony are taking their time with lolipop so they can deliver it bug free.”

Where are these dickheads now???

Azar

SERIOUSLY?!?!?! NFC icon again!!! Who needs that?! Now I won’t be able to keep my NFC on all the time. WTF? I hope it’ll be possible to remove from system/csc/feature.xml if it’d be possible to root L

Carlos W. H. Sun

wondering if they would fix signal icon problem..

brick

Is this real? Looks like a terrible work in photoshop to me. Also which new builds? The latest build is still 690 for z3.

Carlos W. H. Sun

it is something necessary in visual design.

[S]unjay

The CM12 hambuger icon looks better.

[S]unjay

Is that a Z Ultra?

Cris de Oliveira

That’s horrible. Put a floating button to mini apps and “close all button” like cyanogen. So Polluted u.U

actually Google did not remove it… stock android has never had close all on recent apps – it was not in 4.4 stock android… Sony added for 4.4……. so Sony HAVE forgotten to add to their 5.0…. until now that it is…

lu99ke

you can remove the small apps if you like.. just need to run an adb command… it makes the recent apps screen exactly like stock android – transparent navigation bar and all.. much cleaner.

lu99ke

nexus 5 on 4.4….

Blacksparrow15

This Timel I think is a paid samsuck or isheep fanboy. Get out of XperiaBlog. shoo shoo!

Ritwij

Done. Still the same.

naresh

can anyone tell if the update to 5.02 is live in india cos it has gone for my phone Z2 6502 after getting the notification,now there is no update for me anymore when i tried to update.

GraphiteEdge

Noooooooooooo, KEEP THE NFC ICON AWAY! I HATE IT. The only reason I turn of NFC is because of the stupid NFC icon, I can leave it on always with first build of lollipop. At least give the option to disable it.

Battal Aljadei

If that ugly button is Sony developers, then no wonder why their camera results is sucks !

Abo Zahra

man how to do that ?? how to make this adb command ?? and does it require a root ?? plz answer it would be much help , thanx

PhantomMeat

Plug your Xperia into your PC and run the following in command prompt (note you have to have the Android developer framework installed – including ADB.exe)

Pushbullet

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